Common Sense about High Altitude Sickness

The place which higher than 3000 meters is named high plateau, due to the climate features will be greatly different from the plain areas after reaching this height. When reach this height, body will do a series of adjustment to adapt to the condition. Hence, visitors who just reach high plateau or just come back from high plateau need to prevent high altitude sickness from many aspects.

Common Sense about High Altitude Sickness – Who Are Not Suitable To Go To High Plateau

If you never went to high plateau before, you must do strict physical examination before coming into high plateau. Visitors with diseases about heart, lung, brain, liver and kidney, severe anemia, and hypertension are kindly suggested not to go to high plateau blindly. If you just have some common disease, you should take some necessary precaution methods, like taking oxygen with you and so on.

Common Sense about High Altitude Sickness – Notes After Reaching High Plateau

When just reach high plateau, almost everyone will appear different degree chest distress, short breath, dyspnoea and some other oxygen deficiency symptoms. But it can not prove that you can not adapt to high plateau condition. If you can correctly protect yourself, these symptoms will be better or disappear in five to seven days.

People often use oxygen inhalation to release the uncomfortable, which will delay you adapting to high plateau condition. We do not recommend you to inhale oxygen when these symptoms are not very serious, especially very light when you stay quiet. It will help you to adapt to the high plateau condition more quickly.

When you just reach high plateau, please do not eat too much in order to avoid adding burden to your digestive organs so that they can better adapt to the condition. You are highly suggested not to drink alcohol and smoke. Have more vegetables, fruits and some other foods with Vitamin.

There is one things must be noted that these symptoms become more and more serious, very obvious even when you stay quiet after reaching high plateau, you should inhale oxygen immediately and go to hospital.

You should not walk fast, run or do physical labor when you just reach high plateau. After resting for a week, you can increase a certain labor input. That's why people are suggested to start work after coming back to high plateau from plain for one week.

You should pay attention to avoid cold when you just reach high plateau. Cold is one of the main causes of acute high plateau pulmonary edema.